Science fiction: a very short introduction 9780199557455, 0199557454, 9780191617621, 0191617628

Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science a

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English Pages xii, 147 pages: illustrations Year 2011

Table of contents :
Voyages into space --
Alien encounters --
Science fiction and technology --
Utopias and dystopias --
Fictions of time --
The field of science fiction.

Science fiction: a very short introduction
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